Lumber-bracket



Patented May 9. |899.

C. E. STRIFLER.

LUMBER BRA'CKET.

(Application filed Jan. 30, 189%),

No. 624,57l.

(No Model.)

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHESTER E. STRIFLER, OF LOUIS, MISSOURI.

LUNIBER-BRACKET.V

SPEClFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 624,571, dated May 9,1899.

Application filed January 30, 1899. Serial No. 703,860. (No model.)

fo all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHESTER E. STRIFLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at the' city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Lumber-Brackets, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which Figure l is a perspective view of a portion0f a car,showingmy improved lu m ber-brack et in position thereon,illustrating the manner of its use. Fig. 2 is a side elevational View ofmy improved bracket, the standard being broken awayin its center,foreshortening the same. Fig. 3 isa top plan view of the upperspider-arms. Fig. 4 is a sectional View on line 4 4 of Fig. 2, showingthe lower spiderarms in top plan view. Fig. 5 is a sectional view, on anenlarged scale, on line 5 5 of Fig. 2, the bracket-arm proper beingbroken away; and Fig. 6 is a sectional view on line G 6 of` Fig. 5,showing the manner of adjusting the bracket-arm.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement inlumber-brackets for use in loading lumber in box-cars, the object beingto provide a support upon which the lumber is placed in the act ofloading the car, thus dispensing with the services of one of the two menusually employed on the wagon.

I-Ieretofore in loading lumber on cars two men are usually placed on thewagon for the purpose of arranging the lumber on a roller iixed in thedoorway of the car, an inside man receiving the lumber from said rollerand piling it in the car in position. By the use of my invention but oneman 4is required on the wagon, who lifts one end of the plank or boardover the bracket-arm, which arm is then used as a fulcrum or support bywhich the other end of the board is elevated, so as to be placed on theroller-support in the doorway of the car, the plank being then shovedinto the car, after which the inside man piles it in position.

The special features of my invention consist in a standard provided withspider-arms at its upper and lower ends, one for supporting the standardfrom the roof of the car and the other for spacing the standard from theside wall of the car and preventing undue lateral movement thereof, saidstandard being provided with a series of adjusting-openings, with whichcoperates a locking-pin on the bracket-arm. Another feature resides inproviding means for holding said locking-pin in position, and, finally,my invention consists in the arrangement, construction, and combinationof the several parts, all as will hereinafter be described and afterwardpointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, A indicates a standard, which for the sake of cheapnesslnay be an ordinary pipe of sufficient diameterand thickness to give itthe proper strength. On the upper end of this standard is a spider-armB, provided with a socket b for receiving said standard and a set-screwZJ for holding said spider-arm in a rotatorially-adjustable position.The ends of these spider-arms, of which there are preferably two, areformed with teeth or spurs adapted to rest upon the roof of the car andhold the parts in their designed positions. On the lower end of thestandard is arranged a spider-arm C, formed with a suitable eye orsocket for receiving the standard, which eye is provided with aset-screw c for permitting rotatory adjustment of the standard in saideye. The ends of the arms constituting this spider, of which arms thereare preferably two, are formed with points adapted to rest against thedoor or side wall of the car and hold the standard in a fixed positionagainst lateral movement.

D indicates the bracket-arm, formed with a hub or eye d, through whichpasses the standard A. Standard A is provided with a number of openingsa, spaced at suitable distances apart, with which openings cooperates apin e, passing through an opening in hub d. The pin e is mounted on adog E, secured to hub d, said dog being provided with a suitable handlewhereby the pin e. may be forced into or out of engagement with the holea inY the standard for the purpose of adj usting the height of thebracket-arm on said standard. In order to lock the dog E inits closedposition, I arrange a ring F on the lower end of hub d, which ring isprovided with an oiset, as shown in Fig. 5, in which is arranged a re-IOO cess f for permitting the play of the dog. Pins d' are inserted inthe lower end of hub d after ring F is slipped in position, the functionof which pins is to hold the ring F in place. When the ring is in itslower position or resting on the pins d', a projection e', cxtendingfrom the outer face of dog E, practically fills the spacefin the ring,so that the pin e is locked in its home position, as shown in full linesin Fig. 6. Further, when ring F is raised above the projection e the dogE can be moved outwardly to disengage its pin e from the opening a inthe standard, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 6, when the bracket-armcan be adj usted vertically to any desired height.

When the bracket is in position on a car and not in actual use, I canfold the saine against the side of the car to be out of the Way ofwagons, 85o., and to do this I provide holes a in the standard at ninetydegrees relation totheholes a, which holes a cooperate with the pin eand permit the bracket-arm to be folded right or left against the sideof the car.

I am aware that minor changes in the construction, arrangement, andcombination of the several parts of my device can be made andsubstituted for those herein shown and described withoutin the leastdeparting from the nature and principle ot' my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with asupport for engaging the roof of a car, of a standard suspended from,and rotatorially adjustable in, said su pport, and a bracket-armarranged on said standard; substantially as described.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with astandard, of a bracketarin carried thereby, rotatory adjustablespider-arms arranged at the upper and lower ends of said standard forcooperating with the roof and sides of a car respectively; substantiallyas described.

3. The combination with a standard A, formed with a series of openings,of a bracketarm D, provided With an eye, throughwhich said standardpasses, a pin mounted on said bracket-arm for engagement with theopenings in said standard, and means on said bracket-arm for lockingsaid pin in its engaged position; substantially as described.

4. The combination with a standardl A, having a series ,of openings a,of a bracketarm D, having a hub d, through which said standard passes, adog E mounted on said hub and carrying a pin e, for engagement with theopenings in said standard, and a ring provided with a recess forcoperating with the dog E; substantially as described.

5.v In a device of the character described,

the combination with support for engaging signature, in the presence oftwo witnesses,

this 27th day of January, 1899.

CHESTER E. STRIFLER.

/Vitnesses: y

F. R. CoRNvvALL, A. S. GRAY.

